He is not blind to his fate, and it is easy to foretell all. He will throb between two lives, an old man with wrinkled dugs. His fingers will connect nothing with nothing. His vanity requires no response when lovely woman stoops to folly.

The children of Hollywood enter this world with too much baggage.I feel sorry for her. No matter what she does to her body she will always be a genetic female. The decline of the West continues as that which was straight is made crooked. Reassignment surgery is just one symptom of our fall further into self absorbtion as we get drunk on the wine of our vanity.

@ET142"Before you worry any more over the decadence of the West, check out..."

I'm well aware of attitudes in other countries and they don't change my view. I no more worry over such attitudes as I do when watching anything on television. The world is the way it is and I only involve myself with things I can change. If someone wants to make changes to their body in such a radical manner they can find a doctor who will mutilate the gift into which they were born.

True story. *points* Stop me if you heard this. One of my deaf friends saw Cher on television and became possessed with her mannerisms and the way she used her hair. He was constantly imitating her, exaggerating her twirling her hair as if it was a mop spinning on a pole, and leaning forward to virtually devour an imaginary microphone. Once, he caught notice of dog grooming tools I had neatly lined up on a shelf in the garage and took them up as props to pantomime a backstage model preparing for the runway, then he slipped into his made up Cher persona and walked an imaginary catwalk. We died there laughing. The rest of the party came crowding at the inside door to see what was putting us in hysterics.

Skylar that's extreme. You clearly have no understanding of gender-identity issues. This is my first venture into the Althouse comments threads, and I dare say it will be my last. That someone as intelligent, funny and rational as Ann Althouse could attract such a following of the small-minded (with some obvious exceptions) is inexplicable to me.

"This is my first venture into the Althouse comments threads, and I dare say it will be my last. That someone as intelligent, funny and rational as Ann Althouse could attract such a following of the small-minded (with some obvious exceptions) is inexplicable to me."